recurring

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De Kooning's characteristically hooked, recurving line takes on an invigorating speed, charging and skidding through the dense paint, slits open with the promise of spatial depth, only to shut again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Branched and recurving jets were curiously associated with it.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The shoulders of a loop are the points at which the recurving ridge definitely turns inward or curves.

From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)

Immediately proximal to the edge of the scute, the new layer becomes greatly thickened, and, where it passes under the edge, it bulges upward, recurving the free edge of the scute above.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.

There was a whirl in the waters, and quick as thought the vast flukes of the whale rose in the air, recurving with a sidelong sweep as of some gigantic scythe.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.